COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONApricot flavouringA Beer Cloaked in Secrecy
An ale whose mysterious and unusual palate will swirl across your tongue and ask more questions than it answers.
A beer brewed clandestinely and given a name whose meaning is never revealed. Why #9? Why, indeed.
A sort of dry, crisp, fruity, refreshing, not-quite pale ale. #9 is
really impossible to describe because there’s never been anything else quite like it.
Fermented with our 150 year old strain of top-fermenting English yeast.

bottle...golden pour with small off white head. Fruity aroma, quite sweet. Kinda reminds me of peaches or passion fruit or something like that. Sweet fruity start, mellowing in the middle, still sweet. Malty to finish with some grassy tones. A decent fruit beer, very quaffable.

Bottle: Poured orangey color ale with almost no head or carbonation. Aroma is quite weak but I can distinguish some sweet fruity flavour and some malt. Taste is almost indescribable, like a mix between some poorly grown apricot (lacking flavour and sweetness) and malt that doesn’t do any favour to this mix. Like all fruit beer, they can be a wonderful experience when correctly balanced or a complete disaster when things go wrong, such as this case was. Almost needs to wonder if this was a bad bottle.

A decent ale, pours translucent amber, like sunlight peering through clouds. Nice feel to this one, not too fizzy, very nice. Flavor is a little bland, not much to it. Towards the end of the bottle, the flavor I that was really coming through to me was rye bread.

Clean golden pour, highly filtered appearance. Small white head but too mucg carbonation to give it any staying power. Little and thin lacing. Very fruity and pleasant aroma with just a touch of hops. Flavor bursting of apricots and mandarin orange. Almost a bit too fruity at first but the expected (and braced-for) cloying sweetness never attacked. I really liked this beer but it would be hard to drink more than 2 or 3 in a sitting.

Gold, very clear, large fast bubbles form a wispy head head with no retention. Light creamy apricot aroma with the barest undercurrent of nutty malt. Nearly flavorless; white bread soaked in water, hints of apricot and flowers. Sharp carbonation and dry crisp finish. Watery palate. Faint artificial peach flavor aftertaste. Overall, this is a completely pointless as beer, and hardly qualifies as flavored water. A beverage fit for babies and girly-men.

Bottle: Amber color with a small white head. Thin body. Some hints of apricot in the nose. Taste is actually well balanced, lots of apricot syrup, but not enough to make it unpleasant, some sweet malt, caramel, and not much else. Very drinkable.

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